Using the exercise files

Throughout this Essentials title, I will be working in 3ds Max 2010, using assets…that I have created especially for the videos you'll be watching.…If you are a premium member of the lynda.com Online Training Library, you have…unlimited access to the exercise files used throughout this title.…If you are, instead, a monthly or annual subscriber to lynda.com and don't have…access to the exercise files, you'll still be able to follow along from scratch…or by creating your own assets.…As you explore the resource material provided in the Exercise Files…folder, you'll find that different chapter folders will contain different types of material.…

Some folders will provide primarily only the beginning files to get you going.…You see that, for example, in Chapter 8 on working at the Sub Object level.…Other chapters will offer not just the Start from here scene files, but also the…maps and images that are incorporated in that chapter's discussion.…The Chapter 10 folder, Dealing with materials and mapping, would be a…

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11/20/2009

In 3ds Max 2010 Essential Training, instructor Steve Nelle provides a thorough introduction to the techniques needed to take an animated project from start to finish. Steve provides new users with everything they need to know to get up and running, while offering experienced users plenty of tips and tricks they can apply to improve their productivity and workflow. He walks through the program's newly designed interface, details how to create both simple and complex objects, and shows how to bring things to life through a variety of keyframing techniques. Exercise files accompany the course.